spatter
To splash with small dropletsTo splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
» There were blood spatters on the wall.
На стене были кровавые брызги.
Meaning
6 senses(transitive)To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
bespritzen
обры́згиватьobrýzgivatʹ, обры́згатьobrýzgatʹ
spot, splash, or soil
(figuratively, transitive)To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
(transitive)To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
to spatter blood
spritzen, sprühen
(figuratively, transitive)To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
(intransitive)To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
Make sure the pieces of fish are dry before you put them into the hot oil so that it doesn’t spatter.
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To injure by aspersion; to defame.
1647, John Hall, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell, Let envy spatter what it can, This Embryon will prove a man.
besudeln
Examples
14 sentencesThere were blood spatters on the wall.
ruНа стене были кровавые брызги. — marafon
Layla's body was spattered with blood.
He that praises himself, spatters himself.
Dan found blood spatter on the wall.
A man was injured by lava spatter.
deEin Mann wurde von Lavaspritzern versehrt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 3
Origin
Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentativeProbably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Related to spit (“saliva”).
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Forms
spatters, spattering, spattered, spattered| Base form | spatter · to spatter |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | spatters |
| Present participle | spattering |
| Past simple | spattered |
| Past participle | spattered |
irregular
Synonyms
82 synonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle